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It probably wouldn’t be fair to say that Liverpool have been a selling club for much of the last decade, but it’s certainly true that they have tended to sell their very best players when the interested party has been one of Europe’s elite.

We have recently given our views on the seven greatest attacking trios, midfield trios and back fours of all time. There were lots of comments asking us to do similar videos based purely on the here and now, so that’s exactly what we’re going to do with attacking trios today, and if this video does well, we’ll do it for the others as well.

Right, I do apologise, but I’m going to have to start this video with a brief rant about the Ballon d’Or. A once fine institution and award, I fear it has been somewhat sullied in recent years. I mean, to start off with we should get back to basics. It is supposed to be an award given to the best individual over the course of a calendar year, and I fear it does neither of those things.

Liverpool have a fine history of goal scoring centre-forwards, from Albert Stubbins and Ian Rush, to Robbie Fowler and Michael Owen, but how do the more recent crop measure up next to those Anfield legends?

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It probably wouldn’t be fair to say that Liverpool have been a selling club for much of the last decade, but it’s certainly true that they have tended to sell their very best players when the interested party has been one of Europe’s elite.

The Guardian has released its top 100 list of the world’s best current male footballers, selected by a 169-strong panel of experts from 63 countries led by 27 former internationals. Three Liverpool players made the cut.